Poll
surname · Latin script
Meaning, in English: A survey of people, usually statistically analyzed to gauge wider public opinion
(measured from records)Officially recorded in 20 countries · latest register: Census Bureau, 2020
/pol/(machine-generated) Spanish · model-generated · uncertain
Poll is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Germany than in any other country.
- ATAustria≈1 in 10Kfew records(inferred from the name graph)
- NLNetherlands1 in 36K
- DEGermany≈1 in 48K
carrying the name, as counted by its national register where one exists and as Mondonomo estimates it elsewhere (marked ≈ and "est." on hover). Where a country counts another spelling of the name rather than Poll itself, the figure is that spelling’s, and it is named. One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.
- Germany (inferred from the name graph)
- Record sources
- 254 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 7.8K (inferred from the name graph)
≈1,700 people, est.
corpus datasets behind its best-documented spelling
strongest: highest-authority source
Estonia, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts
(measured from records)Locally spelled Pöll in AT Austria and Poell in DM Dominica.
Spellings marked ● are how people bearing the name write it in our records, and ○ marks a model's transliteration; click a spelling to open its page.
Meaning & origin
(measured from records)A survey of people, usually statistically analyzed to gauge wider public opinion.
Cited for this meaning 1
- kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
Attested across 17 languages in the etymology graph.
How Poll is read
(measured from records)Poll is one spelling over 3 language communities, and the dictionaries record it differently in 2 of them. Each row is what a source recorded for that language, beside the share of this name’s records the language holds. No single row is the name’s meaning.
- English64%
A survey of people, usually statistically analyzed to gauge wider public opinion.
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
- Spanish8.3%
No dictionary in our sources glosses Poll in Spanish.
- German7.7%
singular imperative of pollen
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
place name Cologne
as a nameDeutsche Namenkunde: Unsere Familiennamen nach ihrer Entstehung und Bedeutung
The share is ours — how much of this name’s records each language holds. The sense beside it is the source’s, quoted and credited, including where it names a gender. We do not publish a gender of our own per language: our records carry one figure for the spelling as a whole.
Where in the world
(measured from records)Poll counted together with the spellings and other-language forms grouped with it. Where a register counted another spelling, the row names it.
Sorted by bearers: national registers' counts, and Mondonomo's estimates (≈, est.) where no register counts.
| Country | Most common spelling | Sources | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| DE Germany | — | ≈1,700 est. | ≈1 in 48K | — | Poll | 87 |
| US United States | — | 1,672 | 1 in 199K | 2K | Poll | 254 |
| ZA South Africa | — | ≈1,100 est. | ≈1 in 60K | — | Poll | 31 |
| AT Austria | #774 | ≈890 est. | ≈1 in 10K | — | Pöll | 31 |
| GB United Kingdom | — | ≈650 est. | ≈1 in 107K | 705 | Poll | 114 |
| NL Netherlands | #650 | 485 | 1 in 36K | 485 | Poll | 75 |
| EE Estonia | — | ≈180 est. | ≈1 in 7.8K | 94 | Poll | 10 |
| DM Dominica | #229 | ≈14 est. | ≈1 in 4.6K | — | Poell | 1 |
Exact figures are national registers' own counts, while figures marked ≈ and est. are Mondonomo’s estimates, counted from our sources and calibrated against those registers; hover one for how far to trust it in that country. A dash means neither exists.
Registers cited: Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010; Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020; CBG Familienamenbank — Dutch surname bearer counts (GBA/BRP 2007); Surnames of England and Wales (taliesin-arlein.net, Sept 2002 electoral register); the ee-stat-nimed register. Figures without a register are Mondonomo estimates; see Methodology.
Country figures for a list of names, at full precision, are available under licence rather than by scraping this table (how that works).
Other recorded senses
(measured from records)Poll is also recorded in 3 other lexicons, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.
In men, Herrings, or other fish which are usually smoked and dried. In Siei'ra Leone English " Bonge."
as a wordMende Natural History Vocabulary
In enm, A head, particularly the scalp or pate upon which the hair (normally) grows
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In Norwegian Nynorsk, a small branch of a fjord, often with a narrow inlet
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
Ordered by how much of this spelling's record each language holds, so a sense from a language the name is barely used in sits last rather than first.
Notable people with this name
(measured from records)- Max Pollb. 1908BEBelgian ichthyologist (1908–1991)
- Martin Pollb. 1922USAmerican film and television producer (1922-2012)
- Jon Pollb. 1958USAmerican film editor, film director, and film producer
- Graham Pollb. 1963GBEnglish football referee
- Silvia Pollb. 1970CRCosta Rican swimmer
- Claudia Maria Pollb. 1972CRCosta Rican swimmer
- Mihkel Pollb. 1986EEEstonian pianist (born 1986)
- Jana Franziska Pollb. 1988DEGerman volleyball player
- Thomas Pollb. 2001NLDutch association football player (2001-)
- Melissa Pollactress
The ten people covered by the most Wikipedia language editions — a proxy for cross-cultural notability, which favours historical and Western figures over equally prominent contemporary ones — shown by birth year. Source: Wikidata (CC0).
How to address them
(machine-generated)Evidence
(measured from records)34 registers and reference works attest this spelling, across 20 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020 | 2020 | 2K | #14,118 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2000 | 2000 | 2K | #14,060 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010 | 2010 | 1.7K | #16,993 |
| GB United Kingdom | Surnames of England and Wales (taliesin-arlein.net, Sept 2002 electoral register) | 2002 | 705 | #8,694 |
| NL Netherlands | CBG Familienamenbank — Dutch surname bearer counts (GBA/BRP 2007) | 2007 | 485 | #4,007 |
| EE Estonia | Statistics Estonia — per-name Population Register counts (nimed) | — | 94 | #820 |
| EE Estonia | Statistics Estonia — per-name Population Register counts (nimed) | — | 77 | #1,114 |
| US United States | wru Name Dictionary — US surnames, Census 2010 subset (Khanna et al.) | — | — | — |
Reference works 4
- The Oxford Dictionary of Family Names in Britain and Ireland
- Nederlandse FamilienamenBank (Dutch surname bank; ex-Meertens Instituut, now CBG)2007
- Wikidata name items (native-script + romanized given/family names)
- Rymut, Słownik nazwisk współcześnie w Polsce używanych (10 vols, IJP PAN, Kraków 1992–1994) — every Polish surname in the PESEL register at the end of 1990, with bearer counts nationally and per voivodeship1990
These works list the name; their figures are licensed and are not reproduced here.
Register rows as of the 2026-10-09 data build.
Frequently asked questions
- What does the name Poll mean, and where does it come from?
- A survey of people, usually statistically analyzed to gauge wider public opinion. Recorded by kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations).
- How do you pronounce Poll?
- In Spanish /pol/. Transcriptions are machine-generated except where a dictionary is named.
- In which country does Poll have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 1.7 thousand people named Poll in Germany, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled poll.
- How common is the name Poll?
- In the United States, the national register counted 1,672 people named Poll in 2010, about 1 in 199 thousand residents.
- How common is Poll compared with other names?
- In Dominica, Poll is the 229th most common surname of 841 surnames recorded there.
What do you want to know about Poll?
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/pollThe payload this page is built from: spellings and scripts, countries and languages, related names, and the registers that attest the form. It takes a free API key (1,000 requests a day), which returns what this page shows everyone; the full country table, every register citation and the year-by-year series come with a licensed key, as does bulk access.
About this data
measured from records inferred from the name graph machine-generated
These figures come from the data snapshot of and will change as it is rebuilt.
Statistics are aggregated from the Mondonomo name corpus; related names and etymology are inferred from the name graph; pronunciation and any machine-marked transliterations are model-generated. Read how the numbers are made, including their known failure modes, and where the data comes from.
Reference works we consult — surname dictionaries, official name registers, Wikidata and Wiktionary — are named directly, beside the claims they support. The per-country source counts also include datasets of person records: we publish how many there are and their authority tier, but not their names.
Cite this page Mondonomo, “Poll” — the 229th most common surname in Dominica. Data snapshot 2026-10-13.